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Thursday, 10 September 2015

Stylised Poppy Birthday

Hi everyone. I needed a birthday card this week and so decided to combine this with NBUS Challenge No. 5 which our friend Darnell of DJKardkreations is running, where we use anything in our stash which we haven't used before. There are a lot of prizes on offer from really well known sponsors
as well as some donated by her personally, so 'thank you' Darnell. I used green and gold to tie in with the colour challenge which I am just in time to enter over at Less is More.

I was lucky enough to win a gift token over at Verve Stamps and I bought some stamps and dies and these are my NBUS items.

The central sentiment plate is a Spellbinder die set Labels Thirty Three which has been used before and I cut two different sizes using snippets of gold mirri and white card, and layered them up and stamped the sentiment from the NBUS sets of stamps from Verve called Poppy Birthday. I then used the Build a Poppy die set to cut the three base pieces of the flower from snippets of gold mirri card and then using the stamps in two different sizes I stamped on more snippets of white card using Versamark and WOW Gold EP and then cut the flowers with the dies and layered these up too. I finished the flowers with little pearls in the centres.

I finished by cutting leaves in two different sizes from snippets of green card using another Verve set of dies called Sprightly Sprigs which co-ordinates with some other stamp sets which I don't have, but I consider this is a leaf shape which can be cut from plain card as seen here without the matching stamps.

The gold dots are actually the waste pieces from the poppy stamp co-ordinating die set. I think the idea is that you use the holes made by the projections on the dies to help line the die when using the negative piece left from cutting the die as a template, and in order to line up the die when cutting out the stamped images you use the template over the stamped image and then fix the die into the negative space and this then keeps the die in place whilst cutting the image out.

This is such a wonderfully elegant card! I love the sophisticated touches, like the color palette that includes metallic tones, yet I also really like the almost whimsical-look of the flowers themselves. Brilliant of you to use the leftover waste for the dots! This is simple, yet so beautifully detailed and it was a pleasure to see and to read about. Thank you so much for sharing this with us for this week's Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge!

I love this elegant and feminine design, Pat! The gold is really stunning!! Thank you so much for your compliments and enthusiasm and for playing in my NBUS Challenge #5! And thank you for understanding and forgiving me for being so late to comment! Enjoy your day!! Hugs, Darnell

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Since I was young I have always been interested in things creative and have dabbled in knitting, crochet, needlecrafts and oil and watercolour painting. About seven or eight years ago I made some cross stitch cards and so began my love of card making. I mainly make cards for family and friends but I would like to take it a step further and enter some of the many challenges there are out there now. I hope you enjoy following my journey and seeing the results of my efforts, and if you use any of my ideas please link back to here.

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